Woman sentenced to 90 Years in prison in Enugu over N5.6m Admission Fraud

A woman by the name of Chika Amsy Charles has been
sentenced to 90 years in Prison by a federal high court
in Enugu for N5.6 million fraud. Chika perpetrated the
fraud along with two others who are currently at large.
Charles was dragged before Justice D.V Agishir by the
EFCC. She was sentenced today, October 27th, to
3 years imprisonment on each of the 30-count charges
filed against her by the anti-graft Commission.
She was found guilty of swindling three Nigerians of
N5,620,000.00 (Five million, Six Hundred and Twenty
Thousand Naira only) under the pretense of helping
them secure admission into Enugu State University of
Science and Technology ESUTH, through her
unregistered NGO called ‘Bold and Dynamic Gender
Initiative’.
One of the charges in her Court documents read:
“That you Chika Amsy Charles, Simon Chidubem
(at large) and Friday Ali(at large) on or about the
10th October, 2007 at Enugu, Enugu State within
the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of
Nigeria with intent to defraud obtained
N330,000(Three Hundred and Thirty Thousand)
from Okudoh Obinna by false pretense when you
represented yourselves as capable of procuring
admission for his wards into Enugu State
University of Science and Technology which
pretense you knew to be false and thereby
committed an offense contrary to Section 1(1)(b)
of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related
Offences Act NO: 14 of 2006 and punishable
under Section 1(3) of the same Act”.